To:
All European Federations
Associated members, Board members,
FIDE and FIDE Zone Presidents
18 September 2003
Dear Friends,
Circular Letter No. 11/2003
As you know, the annual ECU General Assembly will be held in Plovdiv/Bulgariaon 18 October 2003. We would like to remind you that according to Art. 4.4 of our Statutes each member federation is represented by a permanent delegate or by another person (proxy) who belongs to the same federation or is the representative (permanent delegate or proxy) of another federation. If a member federation has not named a permanent ECU delegate or given a proxy, then the federation’s president represents the federation. This means that each representative in the General Assembly who is not the president needs a written proxy by his president which has to be presented to the Secretary General. The proxies will be checked before the beginning of the General Assembly.
The Swedish Chess Federation will invite all delegates to a reception during the European Team Championship in Plovdiv on 16 October 2003 at 8 p.m. in order to inform you about their efforts on the international scene (annex).
We have received the motion of the German Chess Federation to hold the European Individual Championships (Men and Women) according to the knockout-system (annex 1).
The Croatian Chess Federation has proposed to nominate an ECU Youth Coordinator with the following duties:
-Monitor existing official ECU (team and individual) tournaments
-Monitor existing events for young in Europe
-Coordinate the efforts in improving the organisation of tournaments as well the training process with youngs.
-Create a program of existing tournaments in Europe (a kind of Junior European Cup), and helps the initiatives to organise more tournaments (Funds of EU can possibly be used)
-Helps in initiatives to organise Chess Schools and create ECU standards.
The French Chess Federation asks for the suppression of the obligation for the participants in the European Men’s and Women’s Individual Championship to be lodged in the hotel chosen by the organiser (annex 2).
Attached you will find the official announcement of the 1. European Internet Championship. You may note that each federation is entitled to register two players for the Candidates Tournament. We would appreciate an active participation in this inaugural internet event. Therefore you are requested to forward the information about this championship to your players.
We have received the following changes of addresses:
New Secretary of the Irish Chess Union (replacing Herbert Scarry):
Shannon Clements
17 The Hardwicke
Brunswick Street
Dublin 7
Ireland
Tel. +353 1 878 2436
Fax. +353 1 633 5530
Mob.+353 87 823 0015
Serbia & Montenegro Chess Federation (SCG):
Nusiceva 25/II
P.O. Box 504
CS-11 000 Belgrade
Serbia & Montenegro
President Mr Bozidar IVANOVIC
Mob. (381)63 552 211
General Secretary Mr Dragan LAZIC
Mob. (381)63 508 975
Rating Administrator Mr Mihajlo SAVIC (IA)
Mob. (381)63 208 013
Email ;
Looking forward to meeting you in October.
Best regards,
Horst Metzing
Secretary General
EUROPEAN CHESS UNION
Hanns-Braun-Str., Friesenhaus I, D - 14053 Berlin
+49-30-300078-50, +49-30-300078-30
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